by Tiempo | Apr 22, 2017 | FreeNAS
Issue: RAID is in a degraded state, however the hard drive has not “failed” – instead is showing too many errors. As it has not failed, you cannot see which drive has the errors when viewing the list of drives. Method: 1/ Run command: zpool status...
by Tiempo | Apr 20, 2017 | Exchange Online, PowerShell
Item: Change the email address of an Office 365 group. For example, if you create an Office 365 group when the default domain was domainA.com – then the group would have an email address at domainA.com, even if you change the domain name. Method: 1/ Connect to...
by Tiempo | Apr 20, 2017 | Exchange Online, Office 365
Item: How to connect to Exchange online (Office 365) via Powershell Method: 1\ Open PowerShell and run : $UserCredential = Get-Credential 2\ Enter user credentials into window which appears 3\ Enter command: $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName...
by Tiempo | Jun 8, 2016 | Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Issue: If a Windows service is stuck in stopping or starting, you can force quit the service. Method Find service’s short name (Look in services.msc – it is displayed as “Service Name”) Open command prompt with admin privledges enter the...
by Tiempo | Mar 11, 2016 | Windows
Issue: With newer versions of Windows OS, you no longer have the option to adjust what groups a user a member of (For example if you have Sophos installed, there would be a SophosAdministrator group). To change this, you can do this via command line. Method: 1/...
by Tiempo | Mar 24, 2015 | Mac, Mac OS X
Issue: When attempting to install the EFI Firmware Update for MacBook Pro, the update would attempt to install but fail with the message: An error has occurred The digital signature on MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update is missing or is invalid. The update may have been...
by Tiempo | Jun 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
http://www.paulhite.com/2010/02/notification-wsb-can-do-notifications.html
by Tiempo | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
To check what supported ciphers running on server, use tool SSLScan to check. Download from here Download and extract downloaded file to your machine and run command line: SSLScan.exe domain.co.uk:443 Output would be something like this: _ ___ ___| |___ ___ __...
by Tiempo | Apr 10, 2014 | Scripts
set thedate=%date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2% set thetime=%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2% For Example: =%date:~6,4% Outputs the date, then takes 4 characters from the 6th Character. Depending on location: Date will show DD-MM-YYYY Sp: %date:~6,4% = YYYY %date:~3,2% = MM...
by Tiempo | Apr 10, 2014 | Scripts
set thedate=%date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2% set thetime=%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2% set thelog=RoboCopyReport-%thedate%_%thetime%.txt set source=I:\ set destination=Y:\ robocopy %source% %destination% /E /ZB /DCOPY:T /COPYALL /R:1 /W:1 /V /TEE /XD $Recycle.bin /XD...
by Tiempo | Feb 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
BGInfo – Template
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | Mac OS X
Issue: – You want to remove an Office 2011 for Mac license from a machine, – You want to re-install Office 2011 for Mac but can’t find your installation code. To Remove License: To remove an Office 2011 license from Mac OS X, navigate...
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | SBS 2008
Mailboxs are not created for new users created in SBS 2008, Error in log (C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\AddUser.log) [8120] 090515.192332.7283: Messaging: MessagingTaskException: Unable to find default mailbox database with name [Mailbox...
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | SBS 2011
SBS 2011 add user wizard fails to create Exchange mailbox, Review log: C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\adduser.log [600] 110124.182639.8611: Messaging: Executed management shell command: get-MailboxDatabase [600] 110124.182639.8954: Messaging: End...
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | Windows
RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | SBS 2008, SBS 2011
SBS 2008 DATASERVICECOMPONENTS.LOG Open Services.msc > Stop the “Windows SBS Manager Service” service Delete the following log: C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs\DataServiceComponents.Log Restart...
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | Active Directory, Group Policy
To view what group policies are applied once you are logged onto a domain user – via GUI method: Open CMD > rsop.exe Or via command line Open CMD > gpresult...
by Tiempo | Feb 1, 2014 | Exchange 2007
To grant a user / group full access to a user mailbox on Exchange 2007, use the following command in ECS: get-mailbox -Server <Server> | Add-MailboxPermission -User ‘<Domain>\<Username or Group>’ -AccessRights ‘FullAccess’...
by Tiempo | Jan 19, 2014 | Security
To allow a user to run a scheduled task / script, will need to allow that user to run batch jobs on the local machine. Link: Give the built-in Administrators group the right to logon as batch job for Windows SBS 2011 Standard...
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Active Directory, Group Policy
To create a group policy which configures local admin on all workstations: Link: GPO to push out local administrators across a...
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows
Single User not having their group policy applied when logging in, other users are fine. Error message of: The user does not have RSOP data Issue may be because the user is part of too many groups. Link: Netspoon – Group Policy not applying for just one user….....
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Windows
To disable hibernation in Windows (And to remove the Hiberfil.sys file), run the following command under elevated command prompt: powercfg.exe /hibernate off Link: How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running...
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Exchange 2007
To export mailbox from an Exchange 2007 server to PST file: 32 bit system must be used which is connected to the domain, Exchange Management Server 2007, Outlook 2003 Export single mailbox: Export-Mailbox -Identity Administrator -PSTFolderpath \\Mail\pst\ Export...
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Teamviewer
Issue: Unable to configure Kaspersky application when accessing machine via Teamviewer. Resolution: Kaspersky PURE self-defense component blocks any remote access to the application settings. Teamviewer must be added as trusted application....
by Tiempo | Jan 17, 2014 | Windows 7
To change location of where Windows 7 checks for Windows Updates, navigate to following location in registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate Link: Configure Automatic Updates using Registry Editor ...
by Tiempo | Oct 19, 2013 | E-mail, Email, IMAP, Mac, Mac OS X
Issue: Apple Mail activity window stuck on “Copying Message” for IMAP account. Resolution: Hidden folder “OfflineCache” must be deleted. To show hidden files: Open terminal and enter the command: defaults write com.apple.Finder...
by Tiempo | Oct 19, 2013 | Active Directory, Exchange
If you need to find out if an email address (SMTP address) has been assigned to a user or public folder, use these steps: Open Active directory users and computers Right click on domain and click find, Change the search option from “Users, Contact, and Groups to...
by Tiempo | Oct 19, 2013 | Backup, SBS 2011
Note: Please read the “IMPORTANT INFORMATION” link!!! Issue: Running the SBS backup on SBS 2011 fails with the warning below even though backup drive and system drives have enough free space: There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy on the...
by Tiempo | Oct 19, 2013 | Windows 7
Issue: When expanding the hidden icons in the notification area (next to the clock), your get a number of “blank” tiles where icons should be. (Or in my case, a whole screen of blank tiles with only 3 real icons) Resolution: Clear Tray icon and...
by Tiempo | May 22, 2013 | Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010
Location of the SBS 2011 POP3 Connector Log: C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\pop3connector\Pop3service.log To create a new Pop3service log, you will need to stop the Windows SBS POP3 Connector service, rename the log file, and restart the service....
